Show Tennis TenniA Pro Picks Budge To Win Wimbledon b 1 edO n Prize VC V V VI V V S l V VV V V V sl I V I. I k S V V V V DON BUDGE His Game Has Hall Improved proved Coach Sees dees ees Redhead as Making 25 Per PerCent PerCent PerCent Cent Improvement SAN FRANCISCO March 14 11 UP Howard UP-Howard Howard Kinsey bespectacled San Francisco tennis professional who helped tr train ln Helen Wills Moody for tor her sensational Wimbledon Wimble don comeback predicted today that D Don Dpn on Budge B dge Oaklands Oakland's red-haired red net not star Itar will be the 1936 1938 Wimbledon Wimbledon Wimble Wimble- don singles Ingles champion Hell not hot only be the spark park of the Davis Davis' cup team again but hell he'll win the Wimbledon championship this year Kinsey believes His prophesy should carry weight for tor in addition to his work with Mrs Moody Kinsey once participated ed in fri the singles doubles and mixed doubles finals at Wimbledon him him- self sell Professional at the California Tennis TennI club club- Kinsey tagged Mr Moody as the Wimbledon winner before she had gone beyond the preliminary stages starts of her comeback comeback comeback come come- back training There are a number of at reasons why shy certain Budge is going going go go- ing to be the No 1 performer of the coming tennis season The year old Oakland redhead has added 10 pounds pound to his lank spare frame The Tho extra weight Is bound to give him more power of service and in driving He also has undergone an operation for tor removal of at a nasal obstruction which has haa hampered his breathing for years Consequently his wind Is certain to be b better Gets More lor Power Hes changed his service and now he gets geb more power Kinsey continued Hes putting away smash kills tar far corners His strokes have more subtlety and change of pace than formerly Kinsey estimates that Budges Budge's game physically Is 25 per cent better than it was last year when he halted Baron Gottfried von Cramm German stylist and Bunny Austin England's No 2 man an By no means less important also is the tho fact that Budge has acquired more poise and dence deuce Although ho he seldom was distressed on the court he sometimes sometimes some some- times suffered Buffered d attacks attacks' of or Of pre pre pre- match jitters Jitters' when he was meetIng meeting meet meet- ing a ranking high star atar He wont won't worry about his strokes and he wont won't worry about his opponent opponent opponent op op- op- op this year And that means a lot to a tennis player Kinsey ventured Dons Don's worries were many last hut year He and Gene Mako his Los Angeles doubles partner were greeted with arched eyebrows when they failed tailed to wear neckties in their matches at ritzy Wimbledon A fiend for malted milks phlegmatic and arid boyish at best Budge was the junior member and definitely the kid of Americas America's Davis cup team during 1935 play Getting Into Condition But this year things thing will be different dif dit- dif dif- ferent Ho Ha is conditioning himself gradually gradually gradually grad grad- and pl plans plans' ns' ns to head for tor Houston Houston Houston Hous Hous- ton T Texas for tor zone matches with the Mexican Davis cup team about April 10 Don currently is b working in a sporting goods store hero here and engaging engaging engaging en en- In an easy training program He expects to be in top form torm for forthe forthe forthe the international matches after atter competing in a a series of state tate and local tournaments |